Disadvantages Of The North And The South During The Civil War

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For my essay I will be talking about the advantages and disadvantages for both the North and the South. The advantages I will be talking about the political, geographic, social, economic, and demographic advantages and disadvantages during the war. The Civil War started on April 12, 1861 and it ended on April 9, 1865. The North’s leader was Ulysses S Grant and the South’s general was Robert E Lee. The North had about 22 million people and the South had about 8 million people. The North had more money and more troops than the South. Having more money is very important because you can buy a lot of more stuff for your troops. Also, having more troops is obviously better because you have more people to attack the Confederate and gain control of …show more content…

The South had less money and less troops. The South didn’t have an demographic advantage their population was way smaller. The Confederate troops had way more motivation than the Union troops because they were fighting for a way of life. The Union was fighting to stop something they didn’t want. The South had a lot of disadvantages and advantages. Their disadvantages are they had a weaker government, they didn’t have a navy, and they didn’t have factories. Some advantages the North had was they had very good military officers. They had experience from the Mexican War and they went to military school.(Strategies, Advantages, and Disadvantages, for the North and the South) The South really only had one political advantage, it was called Wartax. This basically gave the South more money during the war so they could provide their troops more weapons. They could also train their troops better with more money.The South social disadvantage is that they didn’t have to many big cities so all of there people were spread out and not conjoined together like the Union. Also the South didn’t have as easy transportation that the North did. Lincoln tried getting Robert E. Lee to be the leader in the North even though he lived in the South. He ended up declining the offer and became the leader for the South. The South also had Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson as one of their generals. He was shot by one of his own troops and was severely injured. He ended up dying a week later. The war ended on April 9, 1865. The war ended because Ulysses S. Grant ended up making Robert E Lee surrender at McLean’s home around 1 o’clock in the afternoon.(Robert E. Lee surrenders) These are the advantages and the disadvantages that mainly affected the Civil War and helped the North

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